Results for "Normal!" in Education & Learning

You’ve built the systems and followed the playbook, yet when the lights go out, you’re still the one carrying it all. School leaders were told that hiring well and documenting everything would bring peace. It didn’t. Because systems create structure and standards create clarity—but only rhythms create safety.

This program is read by the author. Confessional and often hilarious, in Normal Sucks a neuro-diverse writer, advocate, and father meditates on his life, offering the radical message that we should stop trying to fix people and start empowering them to succeed. Jonathan Mooney blends anecdote...

In den ersten drei Jahren mit Baby und Kleinkind stellen sich viele Eltern immer wieder ähnliche Fragen zur Gesundheit und Entwicklung. Erstaunlicherweise sind die Antworten oft gar nicht so leicht zu finden. In der Kinderarztpraxis ist wenig Zeit, im Internet wimmelt es von verwirrenden, teils widersprüchlichen Aussagen und wen fragt man, wenn das Baby ausgerechnet Samstagnacht zum ersten Mal hoch fiebert? Neben dieser gibt es viele weitere Fragen, die gerade bei Ersteltern im täglichen Leben auftauchen.

Does size matter? Is masturbation harmful? What is the G-spot? Do men have a G-spot? Should you feel anxious and guilty about ‘bad’ thoughts? ‘Relax! It’s perfectly normal,’ says Dr Mahinder Watsa, India’s foremost sexologist. In this book he addresses and explains all the issues and...

A veteran clinical psychologist exposes why doctors, teachers, and parents incorrectly diagnose healthy American children with serious psychiatric conditions. In recent years there has been an alarming rise in the number of American children and youth assigned a mental health diagnosis. Current data from the Centers for Disease Control reveal a 41 percent increase in rates of ADHD diagnoses over the past decade and a forty-fold spike in bipolar disorder diagnoses. Similarly, diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder has increased by 78 percent since 2002.

O que define nossa concepção atual a respeito de um funcionamento mental desejável e socialmente aceitável? A que chamamos de "normal" (e será "normal" uma existência sem nenhuma "loucura")? O que é um "transtorno mental" (mental disorder)? O curso faz um diálogo entre psiquiatria, psicanálise e história da cultura para traçar um histórico dessa relação entre "loucura" e "normalidade", por vezes difusa e contraditória. Entre a idealização romântica e um certo higienismo médico...

"What makes this journey so inspiring is Mooney's transcendent humor; the self he has become does not turn away from old pain but can laugh at it, make fun of it, make it into something beautiful."—Los Angeles Times This program is read by the author. A young man once called unteachable...

Un podcast creado en la Escuela Normal Regional de la Montaña donde estudiantes y docentes comparten ideas, historias y experiencias para reflexionar sobre la riqueza y el valor de las lenguas indígenas de México. Un espacio abierto, accesible y vivo que busca acercar estas voces a toda la comunidad.